Here are two companies with horrible bussiness models, who take advantage of you and who lie and get caught constantly.

Activision Blizzard, these two companies got together because they like doing things the same, it is not some accident. Overwatch is a multiplayer game with less maps than free to play shooters, no single player, and a loot system that was so bad people it got people that dont play video games to notice it, this means it is worse than the awfull crates in counter strike. Also the graphics could be done on the PS3/Xbox 360 but they still charge you 40 dollars for thi game.

The people behind Call of Duty 4 and Modern Warfare 2 made Respawn Studios and Activision dint tell anybody, they used the same engine/technology for 4 games in a row, every other company updates their engine between games unless its an expansion/dlc.

IGN/ kotaku, ect, did you guys know that all these websites sell the sections on their front page? they dont have any control over their reviews, this is why game reviewers are made fun of, Microsoft in particular was known for giving away consoles and xbox live subscriptions to reviewers.

I expect those companies to do ****** things. What I didn't expect was for Smilegate to be as grossly incompetent as these companies. How do you make a pet system that NO ONE LIKES and a world boss that drops 6k gold 7 times?? and make a monthly tower cost stamina like I don't have enough stamina problems. On top of all that they make a gear conversion system to "give something for players to do with bad gear" that ends up being so ******* expensive you can't use it! and on top of it being too expensive to use, they put a limit on how many times you can do it, so even if they somehow made it worth using you can't actually use it more than a couple times a month! They literally cannot do anything right, it's like they are taking notes from Activision. It's so bad it could be on the ******* malicious compliance subreddit, they gave us pets, world boss, and more ways to get gear... but its so bad that it doesn't actually help the game in any way. Lets not talk about Huche yeah?

False argument. Just because someone else is behaving as bad or even worse doesn't mean we should sit down and take it like obedient little consumers.

Have other companies done worse? Heck yeah, Bioware's Anthem and Bethesdas Fallout 76 have been much worse in terms of delivering a good game than Smilegate has been and Blizzard needs not even be discussed.

Yet, at the same time, pointing to some other company doing worse is never a good argument simply because that's how triple A's have been playing consumers off against one another for decades now.

They take turns doing something heinous so someone else can be the bad sheep and the others can quietly push the boundary of accepted behaviour a tiny bit further out while they're looking acceptable in comparison.